Requirements

Note: Following steps are for Ubuntu/Debian

1. sudo apt-get install g++ libxrandr-dev libfox-1.6-dev python-pip
2. pip install pipenv
3. Add $HOME/.local/bin to PATH
4. pipenv install

Exporting the model to frozengraph format

aocr export --format=frozengraph ./exported-model-frozen

Starting the server

Note: you need to have a frozengraph model inside ./exported-model-frozen from the previous step

FLASK_APP=app.py pipenv run flask run

API

POST /predict

Params

Encoding: form-data

name	description
file	PNG/JPG/GIF file with the text image

Request:

curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:5000/predict \
  --form file=@local_file.png

Response

{
    "text": "Some recognized text"
}